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Dieng Volcanic Complex: 2 Indonesia: 1944 [30] 114 Dieng Volcanic Complex: 1 Indonesia: 1964 [30] 108 to 120 Mount Tarawera: 5 New Zealand: 1886 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera: 106 Dubbi: 3 Eritrea: 1861 [6] 87 Volcán Arenal: 3 Costa Rica: 1968 [31] 80 Mount Marapi: 2 Indonesia: 1979 1979 eruption of Mount Marapi [32] 79 Mount Mayon: 2 ...
In a volcanic eruption, lava, volcanic bombs, ash, and various gases are expelled from a volcanic vent and fissure. While many eruptions only pose dangers to the immediately surrounding area, Earth 's largest eruptions can have a major regional or even global impact, with some affecting the climate and contributing to mass extinctions .
Mayon Volcano, the Philippines most active volcano. It has been the site of many different types of eruptions, Peléan included. Approximately 40 ravines radiate from the summit and provide pathways for frequent pyroclastic flows and mudflows to the lowlands below. Mayon's most violent eruption occurred in 1814 and was responsible for over 1200 ...
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
"Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions". Digital Information Series (GVP-3). Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24.). Simkin T. & Siebert L. (1994). Volcanoes of the World. Geoscience Press, Tucson, 2nd edition. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-945005-12-4.
The most violent eruption in the volcano's history is thought to have occurred around 6710 BC, reaching a magnitude of VEI 5, characterized by lava dome extrusion and pyroclastic flow. The volcano's crater is elliptical with a transverse diameter measuring 478 m (1,568 ft) and a conjugate diameter measuring 410 m (1,350 ft).
The volcano was dormant for about half of last century, but rumbled back to life with a series of relatively small eruptions beginning in the 1990s. The government ordered evacuations then, and ...
On 4 November 2024, the volcano spewed molten debris at several villages some 4 km (2.5 mi) away, destroying homes and killing at least nine. [74] The Centre of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation recommended that a 7 km (4.3 mi) radius around the volcano be evacuated. [75] Seven villages were affected by the eruption. [76]